bare existence
Example Sentences
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Those who escaped al-Shabab now cling to a bare existence.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2022
In retrospect, I wasn’t so much contemptuous as I was afraid, afraid of what their bare existence said about me and my place in the world.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2018
Even with survivors scratching out a bare existence, would there forever after be harsh limits to the range of human hopes?
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2012
It is the kingdom of microbes, of tiny bacteria and other microscopic organisms that in some Antarctic regions eke out a bare existence, and in others are almost flourishing.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2010
The average price of wage-labor is the minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite to keep the laborer in bare existence as a laborer.
From Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx, Karl
